Example sentences of "'d [been] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 2 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 3 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 4 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 5 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 6 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 7 | I th I think they 'd been on holiday and , she took ill on the holiday and , and came erm , she was stopping at erm , Edith 's and er it happened then . |
| 8 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 9 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 10 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 11 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 12 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 13 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 14 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 15 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 16 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 17 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |